The lack of a victims’ commissioner has created a “void” that is an “affront” to those directly suffering due to crime, the justice secretary has been told.
A group of campaigners – led by the Victim Support charity – has written an open letter to Alex Chalk, the justice secretary, to express “deep concern” that the post has been vacant for a year.
Writing on the anniversary of the departure from the role of Dame Vera Baird, the former Labour MP and solicitor-general, the letter notes there is “no indication a new appointment is imminent”. Several months after Baird, 73, left the post last year, she criticised Dominic Raab, then the justice secretary, accusing him of “deceptively and deliberately” undermining her role after he
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